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time: track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime

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Current idle time in kstat is based on jiffies and is coarse grained.
tick_sched.idle_sleeptime is making some attempt to keep track of idle time
in a fine grained manner.  But, it is not handling the time spent in
interrupts fully.

Make tick_sched.idle_sleeptime accurate with respect to time spent on
handling interrupts and also add tick_sched.idle_lastupdate, which keeps
track of last time when idle_sleeptime was updated.

This statistics will be crucial for cpufreq-ondemand governor, which can
shed some conservative gaurd band that is uses today while setting the
frequency.  The ondemand changes that uses the exact idle time is coming
soon.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Venki Pallipadi
2008-01-30 13:30:04 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent bbe4d18ac2
commit 6378ddb592
3 changed files with 62 additions and 25 deletions
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include/linux/tick.h
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@@ -51,8 +51,10 @@ struct tick_sched {
unsigned long idle_jiffies;
unsigned long idle_calls;
unsigned long idle_sleeps;
int idle_active;
ktime_t idle_entrytime;
ktime_t idle_sleeptime;
ktime_t idle_lastupdate;
ktime_t sleep_length;
unsigned long last_jiffies;
unsigned long next_jiffies;
@@ -103,6 +105,8 @@ extern void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void);
extern void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void);
extern void tick_nohz_update_jiffies(void);
extern ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void);
extern void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu);
extern u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *last_update_time);
# else
static inline void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void) { }
static inline void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void) { }
@@ -113,6 +117,8 @@ static inline ktime_t tick_nohz_get_sleep_length(void)
return len;
}
static inline void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu) { }
static inline u64 get_cpu_idle_time_us(int cpu, u64 *unused) { return 0; }
# endif /* !NO_HZ */
#endif